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Wolfram Research at SXSW

Yesterday was our opening day, and we were thrilled to see so many friends - old and new - stop by to say hello and see what we've been up to.Visitors came to the booth with coding challenges for our live coders. Here are some neat examples, built with the Wolfram Language.

You can definitely tell the developers put many efforts into switching from traditional coding to knowlege based programming. These concise implementations are best demonstration of this profound idea!

Users now can create many useful examples with no more codes than the illustrated above.

Between Stephen Wolfram's announcement of so many cool new additions to the technology stack and the AMAZING live coders in the booth (Exhibit Hall 3, Booth 338 if you're in Austin) - this week has been a whirlwind. While the code above was being built, the crowd simply stared in awe - it was a beautiful thing to behold.Please stay tuned, we'll be here another 2 days!

It's been really interesting to talk to people at SXSW who are seeing the Wolfram Language for the first time and only have knowledge of WolframAlpha.com - I think they'll end up doing some really neat things!

Day two at SXSW came and went too quickly! The booth was busy all day with people excited to see the Wolfram Language in action.We had a fun day. We connected Mathematica to an arduino and made an instant API to display real time data from the arduino's accelerometer. And we worked on a program to compare recorded sound to a MIDI file to see if the recorded sound is "in tune"!Here are a few more examples from today.

Great set of examples here. Really impressive that these were more or less developed and written on the fly at the request of booth visitors. I'm amazed by how intuitive (and powerful) the Wolfram Language is.

Add this to the number of briliant and innovative people that have stopped by, and the Wolfram booth has been a blast!

We are happy to see so many people excited about the Wolfram Language! We have had so much fun in the booth playing with the Wolfram Language and seeing what it can do - we can't wait to share it with people all over the world.

Yesterday, we used a webcam and wrote a program that detects faces as they move in front of the camera. You can even try this out in Mathematica, version 9

Stephen Wolfram has just posted a “speaker’s cut” of his SXSW talk transcript on his blog. It includes examples of the Wolfram Language in action taken from his featured talk in Austin earlier this month:

Tweeting images using the Wolfram Language

Classifying and interpreting hand-written digits

Symbolically nesting an interface element to create a fractal interface

Creating an app that displays images as seen through the eyes of a cat or dog

Moving from simple to more complex features and programs, Stephen also introduces new Wolfram technologies, highlighting what’s possible with the Wolfram Programming Cloud, the Wolfram Data Science Platform, the Wolfram Data Framework, the Wolfram Connected Devices Project, and more.